UFOMYST
CaseCigar2020

Surprise, AZ, USA

White glowing tictac or cigar shaped craft spinning completely silent heading north in the surprise AZ sky

Report quality: Moderate47/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-31
Where
Surprise, AZ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1.22
Geo
33.631, -112.333 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-surprise-az-2020-285991
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 80 documented reports from Surprise, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 224 sightings in 2020.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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